France Day 6

Thanks for your comments everyone! Becky, glad that your big finals are over! Yay! Thanks again for caring for my kitties! My cold has been much better. It was almost finished by the time we got to Paris but you know how these sinus things like to hang on. A lot less snoring on my part now, thank goodness. :)

Yesterday was another beautiful day...

Cinéaqua - a combination aquarium and cinema.  Unfortunately, it was all dubbed in French, so we didn't get much out of the films.

Shark!

Replica of the Statue of Liberty on Pont de Grenelle on Île aux Cygnes.  There's another replica at the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris (among others)...who knew there were so many Lady Liberties in Paris?

Musée Rodin - The Thinker

Rose garden!!!

This is Rodin - grand sculptor.

I want to paint this with someone looking out from the balcony. :)

Eve

Église Saint-Eustache - considered a masterpiece of late Gothic architecture. Louis XIV received communion here & Mozart chose the sanctuary as the location for his mother’s funeral.

With 8000 pipes, the organ is reputed to be the largest pipe organ in France, surpassing the organs of Saint Sulpice and Notre Dame de Paris.  The organ was originally constructed by Ducroquet and later modified under the direction of Joseph Bonnet.  The present instrument was designed under the direction of Titular Organist Jean Guillou (pictured above) and dates from 1989.  It was built by the Dutch firm of Van den Heuvel retaining a few ranks of pipes from the former organ.  Monsieur Guillou played Vivaldi's Concerto en La Mineur and Bach's Toccata, Adagio et Fugue en Do Majeur (the church puts on free organ concerts just aboue every Sunday evening).  The sound was huge.